“Standpoint isn’t magic ... it’s a matter of practice.”

In this first episode we talk to Sandra Harding, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education, and Gender Studies (UCLA), and her daughter, Emily Harding-Morick, about the very beginnings of standpoint theory. Sandra Harding recounts how she and her long-time friend and colleague, political theorist Nancy Hartsock, started a political discussion group in the 1970s in Baltimore inspired by their Marxist and feminist commitments. Their pivotal early publications on standpoint theory arose from these discussions including, for example, Nancy’s “The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism” (1983) and Sandra’s Science Question in Feminism (1986). We talk with Sandra about consciousness-raising groups in the 70s, how she “learned to think about race” in the decades that followed, and her thinking about lesbian standpoints and queer research in the 90s. She describes how she moved from "theorizing to doing” standpoint, and explains why Tapuya, the interdisciplinary journal of Latin Science, Technology and Society, is such an important intervention.

Works discussed TBD.

Edited by Karoline Paier, Alex Bryant

Mixed by Lilith Charlet

Illustrations by Rachel Cripps

Music by The Years from the Free Music Archive licensed under an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.